Thinking

An Emergency Room story

The paramedic phone rang and soon we were rearranging gurneys and pulling the crash cart over in preparation for the next patient. The story was a young man  unconscious. The team gathered and waited for their assigned roles. The patient arrived in full arrest- no heartbeat and not breathing in laymen's  terms. The doctor quickly slid the tube down his throat. The nurse administered every medication that the doctor called out while the other team members performed chest compressions and pushed on the bag to push air into his lungs. The paramedics told us no family around and suspected an overdose. The team realized this one is dead and nothing anyone can do will change that fact. At that moment I looked down and observed the slender soul as I digested the news that he was 31 years old. Hey my brain clicked...my firstborn son is turning 31 tomorrow. Some mother somewhere has lost her son today. Sadness swept over my heart with curiosity to know the story of this life cut short.